USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Anthony was introduced to Stanton by Amelia Bloomer, a mutual friend and a supporter of women’s rights. Anthony, who was five years younger than Stanton, came from a Quaker family that was active in reform movements.

Detailed explanation-2: -The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was formed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in May of 1869 – they opposed the 15th amendment because it excluded women.

Detailed explanation-3: -Susan B. Anthony recognized that without the right to vote women would keep fighting the same battles for equality over and over again. She traveled many miles, giving hundreds of speeches, gathering thousands of signatures on petitions, and organizing suffragists, to press for women’s suffrage.

Detailed explanation-4: -Stanton and her colleague, Susan B. Anthony, were more than advocates for votes for women – they sought a wholesale social revolution. With roots firmly planted in the temperance and abolition movements, both Stanton and Anthony pushed women’s rights in a more radical, political direction.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women’s Right to Vote passed the House and Senate. The 19th Amendment became known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment.